From jacoby.david at gmail.com Tue Feb 18 10:38:55 2014
From: jacoby.david at gmail.com (Dave Jacoby)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 13:38:55 -0500
Subject: [Purdue-pm] Meeting Post-Game
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Today, I talked to Mark and Michael about what HTML5 is. Not too Perl, but
interesting. We also talked about Python and Node.js, and I showed some of
how I used them.
Broc hurt his back and was thus unavailable. Mark said Joe was unavailable.
Is there anything anyone else is dying to hear about that might draw more
people to WSLR 116 next month?
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From derrick at csociety.org Tue Feb 18 10:43:39 2014
From: derrick at csociety.org (derrick)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 13:43:39 -0500
Subject: [Purdue-pm] Meeting Post-Game
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sorry i wasn't there, i lost track of dates.
dsk
On 02/18/2014 01:38 PM, Dave Jacoby wrote:
> Today, I talked to Mark and Michael about what HTML5 is. Not too Perl, but
> interesting. We also talked about Python and Node.js, and I showed some of
> how I used them.
>
> Broc hurt his back and was thus unavailable. Mark said Joe was unavailable.
> Is there anything anyone else is dying to hear about that might draw more
> people to WSLR 116 next month?
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Purdue-pm mailing list
> Purdue-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/purdue-pm
>
From jacoby at purdue.edu Tue Feb 18 12:22:26 2014
From: jacoby at purdue.edu (Dave Jacoby)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 15:22:26 -0500
Subject: [Purdue-pm] Meeting Post-Game
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I suppose I could/should put something together that sends an
announcement the day before.
On 2/18/2014 1:43 PM, derrick wrote:
> sorry i wasn't there, i lost track of dates.
> dsk
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Dave Jacoby
Code Maker, Purdue Genomics Core Lab
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~djacoby
49 days until the end of XP support
210 days using standing desk
From jacoby at purdue.edu Thu Feb 20 09:04:39 2014
From: jacoby at purdue.edu (Dave Jacoby)
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:04:39 -0500
Subject: [Purdue-pm] Next Meeting, Announcements
Message-ID: <530635A7.5000909@purdue.edu>
I have coded a thing that SHOULD send an announcement to the list the
day before, so you can be sure to adjust your schedule to come Monger
on Tuesdays. We'll see next month if it works.
And, speaking of next month, we're open for talks. I can rehash the one
I gave, "What the ^&(* is HTML5?", if Michael and Mark don't think it'd
be too boring to sit through it again, but it might be that it was so
sparsely attended for a reason. Does anyone have a topic they are really
interested in talking about? In hearing about?
--
Dave Jacoby
Code Maker, Purdue Genomics Core Lab
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~djacoby
47 days until the end of XP support
212 days using standing desk
From jacoby at purdue.edu Thu Feb 20 13:11:51 2014
From: jacoby at purdue.edu (Dave Jacoby)
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:11:51 -0500
Subject: [Purdue-pm] Next Meeting, Announcements
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On 2/20/2014 3:28 PM, Mark Senn wrote:
> It would bore me.
Glad to hear it. I might give the talk to the Software Cluster at the
Research Park, but not again for PPM.
> Ii'd rather hear about Catalyst, Dancer, Node, Numara Footprints Perl
> API, or using Perl for home automation,
I can talk some about Node, but I'm still VERY early in the process.
I don't know much about Numara Footprints. I don't know that I've ever
heard of it before today, and reading the web page, I don't have a clue
what it does. Not attacking the idea; just don't know what domain this
falls under. If anyone wants to take this on, I'm all for it.
The problem with Home Automation and Perl is that Homes don't really
have an API. There are three classes of Home Automation I can see: Old
School, New School and Homebrew.
Old School is X10, which generally talks over the power line, and this
means it doesn't talk between circuits and is otherwise brittle. I have
one lamp on X10, using cron and bottlerocket, not even Perl, to turn it
off and on. There's a wireless thing connected to the serial port of a
very-old Linux box, a big wall-wart with an antenna that talks to that
wireless thing, and the wall wart connected to the lamp. It's also just
off-and-on, and getting input into it is not so fun. !pretty.
New School is, at present, too pricy for me. Belkin has WeMo, Philips
has Hue, and there's SmartThings. WeMo has a motion sensor, and you can
use IFTTT to glue things together: If your Jawbone Up senses you have
woken up, your Hue lights can go on bright and at a bluish color
temperature. Thing is, since here, you're automating through IFTTT,
you're beyond the reach of Perl. I'm sure there's a way, but without
IFTTT, there's a LOT of API setup you have to do.
And then there's Homebrew, which means learning Arduino, looking into
Jeenode or Zigbee or (coming soon, don't have one yet) Spark.io, and
setting up relays and servomotors for your things, etc. Lots of cool
stuff, and the more things can talk ethernet and wifi and TCP/IP, the
more you can do with them and interact with them with Perl. But it IS a
big topic. Or, a series of little topics we can talk about forever.
I can do Arduino (and have given a talk I can reuse slides for) and know
a man who has made his own networked thermostat and (I think) has
connected his curtains and his garage door opener to that system. If
there is interest, I can ask him to talk to us.
Thoughts?
--
Dave Jacoby
Code Maker, Purdue Genomics Core Lab
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~djacoby
47 days until the end of XP support
212 days using standing desk